We enjoyed another excellent dinner at Drew’s Bayshore Bistro, in Keyport, NJ, including our first crispy soft shell crab of the season with fries; spicy Cajun shrimp; fig and gorgonzola toast; Cajun jalapeño and garlic meatballs; Mardi Gras mac n cheese with crawfish and Andouille sausage. It all went great with our favorite red blend and cabernet.
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Nice looking pie!
Have your read American Pie by Peter Reinhart? It’s a nice review of both Italian and American pizza styles, and offers a ton of useful information for 'zaw enthusiasts. It’s an old enough book that your library may offer it.
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Nice sear on those mollusks, and FAR better job on the plating than mine (well, my PIC’s) 
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I’m sure he’s just real busy working on a new cocktail creation.
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That’s a damn good looking π, John!
Poker game went reasonably well (I won a whopping $6 
). Our hosts had ordered a ginormous amount of sushi, and there was also some lovely banchan from a previous Korean meal.
Great evening. Not sure WFD at casa lingua tonight.
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Pan fried pork and vegetable dumplings/steamed bok choy smothered in soy/chili crisp(Lao Gan Ma, not the crappy Momofukoboi stuff)/scallions and toasted sesame seeds.
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Last night was a bit of a mosh-mosh.
Spicy chicken salad (copycat of my favorite deli item at Whole Foods that they stopped making) using Cantonese poached chicken and the alioli I made last week.
I had a solo slice of bread hanging out in the back of the fridge, so I toasted it, and then switched to brioche toasts.
Then out for drinks with a friend (WHEN did a $30 cocktail become ACCEPTABLE???), and I was hungry again when I got back, so I made crispy pan-fried kimbap (@digga is this a real thing, or did TJs make it up as one of the ways to eat their frozen kimbap?) It was pretty delicious, whether real or not. (I used to do the same to leftover sushi when I was younger, because I didn’t trust it the next day but I also didn’t want to throw it away.)
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Tonight: “Linner” of truffled mushroom chawanmushi topped with king oyster mushrooms followed by pan-fried noodles with vegetables (snow pea leaves, snow peas, carrots, onions, scallions) and more king oyster mushrooms.
The microwave yielded a lovely custard today, and only my second time making pan-fried noodles, but why on earth don’t I make them more often?!! Crispetty, crunchetty, whole at the same time soft, and intensely flavored. Yum!
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Salmon burger on a toasted potato bun, with saffron aioli, roasted tomato jam, and steamed green beans on the side.
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An absolutely stunning, warm spring day, half of which I spent in bed 
while experiencing pings of guilt because it’s NICE. I should go OUTSIDE and DO THINGS… instead of wasting all that sunny goodness 
Okay, then. Off to shop for dinner thangs & catch some sun at the various parking lots 
Never mind we were also getting gusts of up to 55mph, and it is now dark as night. We’re expecting hail.
Picked up a coupla zukes at the supermarket near me that were planked and grilled to go with a coupla swordfish steaks we unearthed from the freezer. With just over 2 weeks away from our departure, we really need to get rockin’ on that! A zippy piccata-ish sauce for the swordfish with olive oil, lemon juice, chopped parsley, chopped capers, crushed garlic.
Zukes were topped with feta, sumac, parsley. An easy & very satisfying summery meal. Also very green 
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After I’m dead, that’s when.
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That’s the price one pays for having the privilege of living in NYC, I guess?
Yowzah.
Made some lime-pepper marinated chicken breasts, some of which will be used for work lunch salads.
But some was for tonight with roasted Brussels sprouts tossed with balsamic vinegar and honey after roasting.
Wine.
Simple and easy.
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Wooow. But then I’ve become numb to $15 or $16 specialty cocktails at some places on Cape Cod. So not a city lol.
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Cocktails in my college town are between $12-20, with the average being around $14.
I made a spin on some quickie enchiladas reportedly trending on TikTok: frozen chicken taquitos covered in a sauce I made with a jar of green salsa thickened with half and half, cornstarch, a little veggie bullion, and cream cheese. Topped with Colby jack cheese and baked. I topped and baked some small chicken breasts with the same sauce. Zucchini sauteed with oo and adobo seasoning as the veg. It was…OK. DH had seconds and kiddo ate it, so I’m counting it as a win.
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Our bar tab is always more than what we eat. I have been drying myself out for health reasons, and I joke with my PIC that I’m a cheap date when I’m not drinking. Last Friday started our birthdays week. To hell with abstinence until next Friday. Full speed ahead…
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